Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
$22.36
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
25 April 2005
Summary
‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive …”’
Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police off…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780007204496 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0007204493 |
| Author: | Hunter S. Thompson |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | HarperPerennial |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 25 April 2005 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
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‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a scorching epochal sensation. There are only two adjectives writers care about any more! “brilliant” and “outrageous”! and Hunter Thompson has a freehold on both of them.’ Tom Wolfe ‘What goes on in these pages makes Lenny Bruce seem angelic! the whole book boils down to a mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer’s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out.’ New York Times
About The Author
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson is incomparably the most celebrated exponent of the New Journalism. His books include Hell’s Angels, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 and Generation of Swine.
Ralph Steadman is one of Britain’s best-known cartoonists and illustrators. His books include I, Leonardo and the bestselling illustrated Animal Farm.
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